Improvements to controversial Oslo boat ramp may soon begin

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Mark Beyer, center, helps his brother, Kevin, load up their boat at the ramp on Oslo Road on June 25. “They’re killing the river. That’s why you’re seeing this slime,” said Bobby Beyer, the brothers’ father. “There used to be turtle grass. There used to be oyster beds everywhere.” The family, who used to live in Vero Beach but have since moved to Tennessee, spent the afternoon on the Indian River Lagoon fishing.

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Michael Tavlin, left, and Michael Randolfi, both of Vero Beach, remove their canoe from the Indian River Lagoon at the Oslo boat ramp on June 25 after spending the afternoon fishing in the waterway. “I like this ramp because I have a small boat,” said Tavlin. “It’s in an out-of-the-way place and it’s kind of undisturbed; I like it like that. I wouldn’t want it much bigger.”